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Live-Action ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’
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LP high fidelity stereo? Do you have a nice console to do them justice?
_caleb
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More fidelity than I can handle, I'm afraid.
LittleBuford
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Having watched The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes last night, I’ve finally seen Zegler in action. She’s a strong actor and great singer, and certainly qualified for the role of Snow White.
CaptainAmerica
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Fiscal Q3 ends tomorrow, maybe they're trying to get the write-off in on time.
Disstevefan1
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I am looking forward to seeing this when its eventually free to watch on Disney+
Vegas Disney Fan
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I thought this had been silently cancelled, I’m surprised to hear it’s still in production. With all the negativity surrounding it I wonder what their expectations are.
Short of astounding word of mouth I don’t see any way this movie won’t fail spectacularly with all the negativity surrounding it. Seems like it would have cost Disney less to simply toss it in the dumpster rather than spending more money to reshoot it and complete it.
Short of astounding word of mouth I don’t see any way this movie won’t fail spectacularly with all the negativity surrounding it. Seems like it would have cost Disney less to simply toss it in the dumpster rather than spending more money to reshoot it and complete it.
erasure fan1
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Or just dump it to D+. The remakes that went to D+ that were bad, they were forgotten pretty quickly. But a theater release, gets much more scrutiny since there are boxoffice numbers involved.
Disstevefan1
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I don't know how this stuff works.
I am guessing the needed to complete the work no matter what they plan to do with it.
I am guessing if its to be written off, it cant ever be seen, it cant be put on D+
Its probably worth more as a write off at this point.
It seems TWDC has been writing off a lot of stuff in recent years.
Did COVID teach TWDC the art of writing off stuff?
Chi84
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There’s some negativity but not for any real reason as far as I can see.
I’m looking forward to seeing a new interpretation of Snow White; should be fun, especially with Greta Gerwig involved in the writing.
BrianLo
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Oh I didn’t know it was Greta!
I’m not bothering with this thread by and large. But everyone’s pre-release ‘assumptions’ have usually been wildly overstated or even completely off the mark for nearly all of Disneys product.
It may very well flop, but assuming the movie is a train wreck based on pre release stills 2 years out seems about as accurate as a magic 8 ball. It’s weird how much pre conceptions there are around this product.
I assume I’ll see some actual footage at D23 and will happily note if I think it looks bad based on that.
Disstevefan1
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If Disney chooses to release this instead of writing it off, it will lose money mostly because of what it cost to make and market this film with the initial costs and reshoots (nothing to do with the characters or the story).
When you start out having to make 900M at the box office just to beak even, you are starting deep in a hole.
When you start out having to make 900M at the box office just to beak even, you are starting deep in a hole.
BrianLo
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It’s about 30 million cheaper than mermaid (supposedly) and would have a theatrical break even around 520 million.
It isn’t cheap, but it’s not exactly horrible.
I must say my interest is slightly piqued. Given the volume of prior Snow White retellings including Greta writing this, they may actually be producing something a bit different and of actual artistic value with this one. Maybe. I want to have a first look on what direction it’s actually going first.
The talent on this one is surprisingly strong. The director I’m ambivalent about.
I think its prospects are actually a lot more viable than the Marvels. A female audience ‘may’ actually turn out for this one. Maybe more viable than mermaid internationally. I dunno… I think I’m talking myself into this might not be the horrific miss everyone has already decided it is.
Disstevefan1
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We really don’t know the true cost of any movie. Companies state a “budget”, All that is an estimate of costs today.
Maybe in the old days productions were probably forced to keep costs down, when I watch “the making of” documentaries of older movies, a lot was about things they did to keep costs down.
Today, we never know the real costs of making movies, we never know how much they went over budget due to reshoots and post production , we never know the true costs of marketing so we don’t know how much this movie costs for everything in the end.
As we have seen, Disney does not care about their movie budgets, they totally care about their theme park budgets, but their movie budgets, nope.
All costs aside, IF they don’t write off this movie and shelve it never to be seen, I will have a look at it when it’s on Disney+ for free.
Tha Realest
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She’s not going to have a lot of practice, as she doesn’t appear to have any other live action films or TV series in production.
Disstevefan1
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Rachel should just retreat to her basement and not talk to the press at all. I heard that's very effective.
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